Marcel Winatschek

Tick, Trick, and Track

I spent years pretending I’d outgrown Donald Duck’s nephews—Huey, Dewey, and Louie, or Tick, Trick, and Track if you grew up with the European names. My subscription to the Lustigen Taschenbücher felt like something to hide, like guilty pleasure rather than actual taste. Turns out I was wrong.

Belgian artist Simeon Georgiev styled the three of them in Supreme, Nike, Givenchy, and MORT, and suddenly they look better than actual people. The ducks are crisp, put-together, aware in that particular way contemporary streetwear makes you aware—like they know exactly what they’re wearing and why it matters. It’s absurd and perfect.

I have no idea if these exist as real figures or if they’re just renders Georgiev made to mess with our sense of what counts as design. Part of me hopes they stay inaccessible, that rare feeling of wanting something that will probably never exist. But if they showed up somewhere, I’d buy them all immediately.